74 Tweets That Will Make You Laugh If You Love Grammar, Copyediting, And Language
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Today in enjambment news
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Hey! You know what! In 2022 I am using exclamation points at the end of every email sentence! I don’t care if it looks like I’m unhinged! I am! Warmest regards!!!
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when a writer asks me anything
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this headline makes sense in context but it really sounds like a story about a witch's curse gone wrong
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if you can pretend that a groundhog is predicting the weather for the next six weeks, you can use they/them for a single person
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when they forget to give the copy desk access to the Google Doc:
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Them: We used the Google Docs spellcheck, so I think it's pretty clean.Me:
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How many copyeditors does it take to change a light bulb?This is the first time you've mentioned a light bulb
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I'm screaming at this copy.
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I needed this today.
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Its National Proofreading Day!
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electricity went out and i had a small meltdown at work today
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Yeah I love the “Grammys” — all the grammy lessons in my damn style guide
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It's a common mistake, but Frankenstein was actually the author
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The past tense of the verb “lead” is “led,” which sounds the same as the element “lead,” which rhymes with “red,” which sounds like “read,” which is the past tense of “read.” Somehow we navigate through these words every day, so don’t tell me singular “they” is too confusing.
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"Don't Worry Darling"? But I am worried! About where the vocative comma went!
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When your editor lets you add that extra em-dash:
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An editor’s job is thinking, but a copy editor’s job is overthinking.
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why do we always add -ussy but never add -enis
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2022 in punctuation form
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“Now I put commas wherever the fuck I want”
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Are you sure
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The sexual tension between me and the em dash is insane. I literally cannot stop.
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we need an american girl doll who’s a descriptivist
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they're a 10 but they use two hyphens instead of an em dash
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"twerp" is derived from a guy named t w earp
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writer: i ran a spellcheck, so it's probably good to gocopy editor:
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Once i read an article about how women need to use less em dashes because it is a feminine way to write and I was like “ok—“
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spotted an ellipsis in the wild… it really gave me pause.
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queue is such a funny word. you get it right on the first letter and then take four victory laps
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Shout-out to the other neurodivergents who use parentheses too much (to add context to make sure nothing is misunderstood) (because parentheses clarify our directness) (I hope this tweet makes sense).
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YOUNG PEOPLE: heres some slightly different language you can use to be more inclusiveOLD PEOPLE: we are going to burn the entire earth to the ground
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Dogshit - Very poor qualityBullshit - Not trueHorseshit - NonsenseApeshit - RambunctiousBatshit - InsaneThis is an excellent feature of English that we should continue building upon.
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“men used to hunt” yeah well i stay in the google doc and watch while an editor is working on my copy
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going into next week I think I speak for all editors by saying that the name Beyoncé should universally autocorrect to include the accent mark over the e across all devices and platforms
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This is worrying. We've only started using robots ourselves.
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the chicago style hot dog implies the existence of the mla style hot dog
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don’t touch that, it’s my emotional support emdash
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Copyeditor: “I am going to break up some of your longer sentences” (crowd boos) “with more em-dash pairs” (crowd cheers)
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As the years go by, I’m increasingly becoming the guy on the right, in more ways than one. https://t.co/4kMOGPsWQ0
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It's wild to me that we have a word for "throwing someone out a window" but not for, like, "the day after tomorrow". What's going on here? Big Window?
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If there’s one thing I’m gonna do it’s use an em dash
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me when I see writers lurking in the Google Doc while I'm still editing
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every time I send an email with no exclamation points I am just a tough lil guy. so stern. so brave.
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THE USE OF SINGULAR “THEY” ACTUALLY DATES BACK TO THE 1300S SO YOU CAN’T MAKE THE ARGUMENT THAT IT “BOTHERS YOU” BECAUSE IT’S “GRAMMATICALLY INCORRECT” EVEN SHAKESPEARE AND EMILY DICKINSON USED “THEY” WITH A SINGULAR ANTECEDENT AND NO ONE SAID A THING
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They say consistent writing makes your language-brain sharper, but I somehow wrote 2k new words today and then when I was making a grocery list I couldn’t remember the word “lettuce” so I wrote “sandwich leaf”
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“Yeah it’s late but at least when I file, the copy is clean”The copy editors:
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me cutting adverbs
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[tears in my eyes, pulling out a gun] ok my darlings... I have some bad news...
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when taylor uses hyphens instead of em dashes in her album announcement
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my brother, taking one (1) journalism class in college and texting me to ask if I know what the AP style book is...
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when the copy desk doesn't get to edit the draft
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They totally missed a trick here https://t.co/0oNgKql2Fe
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when you see someone else in the google doc but it’s just you in another tab
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I'm sorry but "non-fungible" will always mean "impossible to turn into a mushroom" to me
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Wait, Laurie doesn’t believe in the Oxford Comma? Maybe Michael was right.
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poke is a way better gender neutral term than person: mailpoke, congresspoke, handypoke, snowpoke. all perfect.
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watching my editor work in the google doc
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actually, fewer. https://t.co/XE6LBDb3we
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The contradictory Oxford comma use, the missing punctuation, the random insertions of Elon-speak… It’s always immediately noticeable when copy editors get fired
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when the pre-write still needs a re-write
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I hate commas its not my job to tell you when you breathe work it out youre a grown adult
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Using an en dash is lowkey goated in situations where displaying a date range is the vibe
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if twitter really is dying, my confession is that i never noticed the comma in that one pride and prejudice quote, so up until recently i always read it as "you have bewitched me body and me soul" in a leprachaun voice and i never understood how people found that romantic
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this is so embarrassing
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Microsoft Word wrapped-you deleted the same sentence 947 times-you stared at 14 different documents and added nothing before closing them in disgust-you were in the top 1% of users of the word “just”
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a real testament to the evolution of language is the fact that every "today is giving tuesday" type email subject line makes me laugh at least a little
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I learned a new phrase today: going goblin.I intend to use it at every opportunity.
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Goblin mode has made it to China. In this screenshot it’s both being translated phonetically and rendered as “摆烂模式”, which basically means “fuck it mode”. I love this
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Two different languages are being spoken here lmaooooo
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city of toronto, you needed a copyeditor on staff for this one.
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